GHMC earns Rs. 739 cr through DPMS

GHMC earns Rs. 739 cr through DPMS

The GHMC has earned Rs. 739 crore by the end of October this year through the Development Permission Management System (DPMS).

The
corporation has issued building permissions to 18,616 applicants, whose
applications are complete in all respects as per rules.

A total
of 22,246 applications were received online, as part of the system, and
permissions were issued within a month, a statement from GHMC informed.

The system was launched in June 2016.

Merit award

GHMC
is set to receive the SKOCH Merit Award in Delhi on December 20 for
achieving transparency and accountability through online issuance of
building permissions and occupancy certificates.

Work on Smart City projects to begin soon

Wednesday, 06 December 2017 07:27
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The Hindu 06.12.2017

Work on Smart City projects to begin soon

With the process to select the management consultancy to implement
the city Corporation’s Smart City project in progress, the local body is
hoping for the execution of various projects on the ground to begin
early next year.

According to Corporation officials, work on the
projects that can be implemented without a project management consultant
can be begun earlier.

Projects that the Corporation can execute by itself are being identified.

Projects

These
include projects for solid waste management at source, upgrading of
anganwadis, smart bus stops and other similar projects.

But the
projects for multi-level parking lots, shifting of various utility lines
to underground ducts, skywalk and bicycle ways require a project
management consultant.

A total of nine companies had appeared for
the pre-bid meeting for the selection of management consultancy. But,
with the local body keeping the bar high to ensure that only companies
with adequate expertise and experience responded, only three companies
responded finally — Wadia Techno-Engineering Services Ltd, Mahindra
Consulting Engineers Ltd and IPE Global Ltd.

Technical committee

A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Smart City Special
Purpose Vehicle will form the technical committee and the consultant
selection committee for the technical scrutiny of their bids.

“The
evaluation of the bids and selection of the consultants will take only
one or two weeks. After that, we have to execute an agreement with the
consultant.

“The consultant will then start the preparation of the Detailed Project Report for each of the projects.

“Preparation of some of these reports will take a longer duration of time, depending on the complexity of the project.

The consultant will also have the responsibility of managing the whole project,” said an official.

Corporation’s passenger boat conducts trial run

Wednesday, 06 December 2017 07:17
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The Hindu 06.12.2017

Corporation’s passenger boat conducts trial run

Fort Queen, the passenger boat that the Kochi Corporation is planning
to introduce in the Vypeen-Fort Kochi sector, conducting a trial run on
Tuesday.

KSINC has been contracted to operate the service

Fort Queen, the passenger boat of the Kochi Corporation, began trial runs in the Kochi waters on Tuesday.

Officials
of the Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC), which
has been contracted for managing the service, successfully operated the
boat for close to four hours.

The boat will cover the
300-metre-long Vypeen-Fort Kochi sector in less than five minutes.
However, one lap would require around 20 minutes to complete as time has
to be allotted for completing the passenger movement in and out of the
vessel. The vessel has a seating capacity of 100 passengers, said Cyril
V. Abraham, the commercial manager of KSINC.

The boat is expected to operate 54 trips a day.

The civic authorities are planning the formal launch of the boat service on Thursday.

The
Congress-led civic administration had come under fire for the delay in
launching the service. The service has been planned as an alternative
facility for the jankar service which will be suspended for the
construction of the mooring facility for the Roll On-Roll Off service of
the Kochi Corporation.